AOR 2.226
Catalog Number
AOR 2.226
Series
Family Dog
Venue
Straight Theater
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
September 21, 1967
Nickname
Equinox of the Gods: Magick Powerhouse of Oz / Kenneth Anger / Charlatans
Performers
Magick Powerhouse of Oz
Kenneth Anger
Congress of Wonders
The Charlatans
San Francisco Mime Troupe
The Duncan Company
The Straight Dancers
Kenneth Anger
Congress of Wonders
The Charlatans
San Francisco Mime Troupe
The Duncan Company
The Straight Dancers
Equinox of the Gods: Magick Powerhouse of Oz / Kenneth Anger / Charlatans
By the autumn of 1967 the Summer of Love had curdled at its edges, and nowhere did the psychedelic dream tilt more sharply toward the occult than inside a converted movie house at 1702 Haight Street. On the evening of the autumnal equinox — Thursday, September 21, 1967 — the Straight Theater hosted "The Equinox of the Gods," an event whose poster (catalogued today as AOR 2.226, its imagery invoking the Egyptian…
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